I first noticed I was different in fourth grade. My parents said I was being dramatic. They said I just wanted attention. I thought they must be right. But still, I felt different. Maybe it’s true, I wasn’t trying hard enough. How could I not be able to do what everyone else was born doing? 100 years…

In the fifteen minutes since I told Mary and Karenna that they have both been invited to audition for a movie project they’ve hit all the important stuff: girlie squeal; panic that they’re not good enough; back to the girlie squeal; finalizing the layouts of their plush Burbank apartments. “So what happens if one of…

In 2012 we celebrated the first third birthday in our household where I was not pregnant with the next child. The following week, I bought the children butterfly larvae to hatch. After they flew away, I bought a plant, but it wasn’t very cute. Next came the chickens, and then the first baby bunny…